Students won’t be returning to the Winter Hill Community Innovation School in Somerville anytime soon, and district officials are working on crisis communication after as many as five fights broke out at the high school, School Committee members heard.
Fixing the Winter Hill school is high-priority for Somerville despite its lack of a plan if the state doesn’t offer funding, officials said. State funding, though, also comes with a multiyear process of up to seven years.
Plans to offer specialized tutoring to eligible Cambridge Public Schools drew School Committee questions about how students are selected, how hiring is progressing and how to encourage students to study after the day’s final bell rings.
As many as 30 students will get a tuition-free education at Bunker Hill Community College in what is expected to be the first year of a permanent program.
The rollout of free universal pre-kindergarten next fall may force a full reevaluation of Controlled Choice, the delicate game families play to enroll their children into their preferred Cambridge public elementary school.
The school district plans to shift the algebra curricula taught in ninth grade into eighth grade and move the current eighth-grade math units into seventh grade over three years, a reversal of what some parents feared was a “dumbed-down curriculum.”
There have been 21 meetings since educator contract negotiations began in October on a new three-year contract for roughly 1,100 teachers, assistant principals, deans and curriculum coordinators that will begin Sept. 1.